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Got a spare tire tummy or a muffin top that you just can’t shake… or, um, get rid of? More than being an area of visual insecurity, the visceral fat (the technical term for the fat that gathers on the stomach) that rolls over your jeans is also seriously bad for your health as it surrounds vital organs and can increase your risk of diabetes and heart disease. Exercise physiologists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Human Studies discovered that as few as 80 minutes exercise (either cardio or resistance) a week can get rid of visceral fat.

While the best way, long term, to cut the fat and show off cut abs is to take the 3-prong cardio (to burn the fat), resistance (to tone the muscles beneath), diet (to burn the fat from the inside) approach, there are a few tricks to make your muffin top less noticeable now.

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